Finding your knitch!!!

We all were born with a gift and a talent. Don't never let no one tell you any different. Sometimes life throw us many loops that we sometimes might be stuck with confussion because we don't exactly have an idea but have a desire for greatness. Like myself, I am a gifted artist. I like drawing. I love to teach, I love to learn, I love to read because it's my passion. Long as you believe you will achieve.

I love Air Jordan Shoes!!!

      Some may know and some may not know I am a big  Air Jordan shoe fanatic. I've had over 13 pairs in my adult life. It all started when I was in College because as a child I would beg my mom to buy me a pair and she always told me "NO" because she talked about how expensive they were and that "Mr.Jordan is not paying her bills and how she was not going to pay his bills". Real talk, I could see where she was coming from but I've always admired the style of the shoe. I told myself when I had gotten enough money I was going to buy me a pair, then 2, 3, 4, and so on I did. I would buy so many almost every month because I could, but not looking at how materialistic I had become. Knowing in the back of my mind I can't wear every pair of  those shoes at the same time. I remember as a child always getting shoes 2 times a year for back to school and my birthday.
       I was getting caught up in my wants instead of my needs because I had let something that started out as a hobby become an obsession that I believed that I needed to always buy me a pair because I couldn' t get them when I was child . When you young and making your own money you sometimes blow it on foolish things because you can. As I look back spending $150 on a pair of shoes almost every month could had been something saved up for a rainy day. I had to break those selfish habits and deal with reality so I can become a whole person again. A few months ago I gave away13 pairs of my Jordan shoes that was in good condition to the Salvation Army and kept 2 pairs to myself because it was not worth having anymore because those shoes didn't define who I am as person which is a giving individaul. I understand now why my mom didn't buy those shoes because she didn't want me to become materialist but humble and let people see me for who I am and not for what I have on my feet.

I look at you like you look at me!!!

  I've been on a cloud of amazement and disappointment in the matter of 4 days. I am not a fan of the whole
"It is what it is" type attitude because to me it tells me that you don't give a shit. I don't care what you do in life you have to have a plan. Sometimes we may set goals but that doesn't mean that goal is always going to come out the way that we want it to. At least there are other avenues that you can take that can serve as a back up plan that will help you continue to attain that goal.

   Sometimes I feel like I'm on "Ignorant Overload" because of people not using their common sense but I have to take into account that if people knew better they would do better. I know myself I am not perfect and I have made numerous mistakes but I learned from them. Now a days it seems that some people keep on making the same mistakes or talk a good game because it sounds good so they can get ahead in life. The best motto I've ever learned was, "Don't talk about it... Be about it."

   It upsets me to see that young people are being left behind in the shuffle because their parents don't prepare them for the real world or give them advice on what to expect once they get out there and have to fend for themselves. You have different types of parenting, you have the ones who are super strict and over protective (Aggressive/Authoritative) or the ones with the even balance of rules that needs be followed (Assertive) and last but not least the type of parents that let their children do anything they want without them having to suffer the consequences (Passive).

    I admit my household wasn't strict where we were put on lock down for every little thing we did but I say we were disciplined and had rules that we had to follow. If we did something wrong we had to suffer the consequences for it. Everything that we got we had to earn it. Like my grandmother use to say, "If she had it she wouldn't give it to us" What she mean't by that was if she gave us the world we wouldn't appreciate the things we have.

   Just like when people look at me funny because I try to make careful choices I look at you funny because you make bad choices but all in all I am learning from both our situations. I am, you are, and we are a work in progress that has many things to be worked on.